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<p align="center"><img width="150px" src="api/images/logo_full.svg" alt="SpiceSharp"></p>
<p>SpiceSharp is a circuit simulator originally based on Spice 3f5 by Berkeley University - hence the resemblance of the logo. This is also the ancestor for a lot of modern commercially available electronics simulators (PSpice, HSpice, SmartSpice, T-Spice, etc.). Spice-based simulators still remain the industry standard for circuit simulation today.</p>
<p>These simulators have typically been continued in C++. This had the following unfortunate consequences:</p>
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<li>Some obsolete/buggy code from the original Berkeley Spice can sometimes still be found in for example ngSpice, although this is rarely a problem.</li>
<li>It is not intrinsically object-oriented.</li>
<li>The code is not easily understood and expanded.</li>
<li>The code is usually not cross-platform and multiple binaries are needed, or you need to compile it yourself.</li>
</ul>
<p>I originally wanted to learn more about circuit simulation and its techniques. Transforming the original Spice project to a completely managed, completely object-oriented piece of software definitely proved to be a challenge. Overall, the project has evolved quite nicely into something that I'm pretty proud of.</p>
<h2 id="tutorial">Tutorial</h2>
<p>You can find a guide for getting started using Spice# <a href="articles/tutorials/gettingstarted.html">here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="the-structure">The structure</h2>
<p>More information on the inner workings of Spice# can be found <a href="articles/structure/flow.html">here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="api">API</h2>
<p>The API can be found <a href="api/index.html">here</a>.</p>

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